EP0795519B1 - Dispositif d'injection de gaz non oxydant à l'intérieur d'un four - Google Patents
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- C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
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- C03B37/02—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments by drawing or extruding, e.g. direct drawing of molten glass from nozzles; Cooling fins therefor
- C03B37/025—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments by drawing or extruding, e.g. direct drawing of molten glass from nozzles; Cooling fins therefor from reheated softened tubes, rods, fibres or filaments, e.g. drawing fibres from preforms
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- C03B2205/60—Optical fibre draw furnaces
- C03B2205/62—Heating means for drawing
- C03B2205/64—Induction furnaces, i.e. HF/RF coil, e.g. of the graphite or zirconia susceptor type
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- C03B2205/60—Optical fibre draw furnaces
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- C03B2205/90—Manipulating the gas flow through the furnace other than by use of upper or lower seals, e.g. by modification of the core tube shape or by using baffles
- C03B2205/98—Manipulating the gas flow through the furnace other than by use of upper or lower seals, e.g. by modification of the core tube shape or by using baffles using annular gas inlet distributors
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
- F27D—DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS, IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FURNACE
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- the present invention relates to ovens, the enclosure is heated by a heating element graphite such as induction furnaces with a graphite susceptor, and in particular a device injection of non-oxidizing gas inside a this guy.
- a heating element graphite such as induction furnaces with a graphite susceptor, and in particular a device injection of non-oxidizing gas inside a this guy.
- Induction ovens with a susceptor in graphite are used in particular in the field of optical fiber.
- Optical fibers are indeed made from preforms that come in shape of cylindrical bars whose obtaining requires a shrinking operation. In this operation, a primary preform which is a hollow silica rod, is heated at high temperature in an oven to be transformed into a solid bar having undergone a pasty fusion inside the oven during which the diameter of the preform is restricted.
- Document DE-37 31 346 relates to the injection of annular flames preventing oxygen from entering the oven.
- JP-A-57 140 330 describes an oven for the manufacture of optical fibers in which nitrogen is injected at each end of the oven by means of cone-shaped nozzles to prevent dirt from entering the oven. This process is not effective enough to prevent air from entering the oven.
- the main object of the invention is to provide a device for injecting non-oxidizing gas into an oven whose heating element is made of graphite, which prevents any air entering the oven which could cause combustion of graphite.
- the object of the invention is therefore a device injection of non-oxidizing gas into an oven comprising a graphite heating element used to heat a elongated object, part of which is inside the enclosure of the furnace, the object and the furnace being in relative displacement relative to each other in the axial direction of the oven.
- This device comprises at each of the inlet ports or out of the enclosure two rings of conduits passage of non-oxidizing gas, the conduits of each of rings being inclined at the same angle relative to the axial direction of the furnace, this angle being different for the two rings of conduits, so as to inject the gas non-oxidizing according to two cone-shaped gas curtains, the gas being directed to the top of the cone and into the direction away from the enclosure in order to prevent any air entering the enclosure which could cause combustion of graphite from the heating element.
- an induction furnace such that illustrated in Figure 1 is a cylindrical furnace mainly comprising an inductor formed by turns 10 and intended to induce an R.F. electromagnetic field, and a graphite 12 armature or susceptor surrounding the enclosure 14 from the oven.
- the graphite susceptor 12 is surrounded by a thermal insulation jacket 16 generally made of felt of graphite and an outer silica enclosure 18.
- the oven includes other items that are not essential or necessary for the functioning of the device according to the invention and which are included in the general enclosure 19 represented by a line in dashed in Figure 1.
- Such an oven can be used for shrinking a primary preform 20 which is in the form of a hollow bar about 30 mm in diameter required transform into a preform 22 usable for drawing fiber optics, i.e. a bar full of diameter of about 20 mm. This transformation is happening mainly around the middle of the oven brought to a temperature of around 2000 ° C, and is manifested by the narrowing 23.
- the preform 20, 22 enters the oven through the orifice inlet 24 and exits through outlet port 26 with a travel speed up to 500 mm / min. But he it is possible to provide that the preform is stationary and whether the oven is moved in translation.
- a non-oxidizing gas is injected into the enclosure. This injection is done at each orifice of the oven from an annular injection chamber 28 to the inlet, and an annular injection chamber 30 at the outlet. The gas is introduced into each chamber by an inlet tube 32 for the injection chamber 28 and via an inlet tube 34 for the injection chamber 30.
- Each of the injection chambers surrounds a ring of diameter slightly less than the diameter of the enclosure of the oven, the ring 36 for the chamber 28 and the ring 38 for the chamber 30, so that the non-oxidizing gas introduced under pressure into the injection chamber flows in an axial direction towards the center of the enclosure (see arrows in the figure).
- This gas flow injected at each end of the oven enclosure allows thus maintain a slight overpressure of non-oxidizing gas inside the oven to prevent entry air that could cause graphite to burn.
- the non-oxidizing gas is first sent by a tube 44 or 46 in a pressure chamber 48 or 50, also annular in shape and surrounding the chamber injection proper.
- a tube 44 or 46 in a pressure chamber 48 or 50, also annular in shape and surrounding the chamber injection proper.
- the wall 52 separating the injection chamber 40 from the chamber pressure 48 is relatively thick and crossed by conduits 54 or 56 having an angle with the axial direction of the furnace so that the non-oxidizing gas under pressure in the pressure chamber 48, is injected in room 40 with a certain speed depending on the arrows illustrated in the figure.
- Crossing conduits the wall being close to each other, so it's a real conical curtain which is formed to inside the chamber 40 and this at each end of the oven.
- FIG. 4 The injection of a double gas curtain is illustrated in FIG. 4.
- the wall 52 between the chamber injection 40 and the pressure chamber 48 has two rows of conduits, a first row of conduits 58, 60 similar to the row of conduits in Figure 3, and a second row of conduits 62, 64 more inclined by relative to the axial direction and therefore forming a curtain conical whose apex angle is smaller than the angle of the cone formed by the first curtain. This difference tilting of the two curtains brings increased efficiency.
- the first row may have an angle with the direction axial between 65 and 85 ° and the second row have an angle between 45 and 65 °.
- the temperature control in the oven shown in section in Figure 1 is improved to the extent that it is performed taking into account the radiation received from of the preform in the enclosure by means of a pyrometric sighting.
- a sighting tube ending at the place 23 where the preform undergoes the shrunk passes through the outer silica enclosure 18, the thermal insulation layer of graphite felt 16 and the graphite 12 susceptor, and leads to the heart of the oven enclosure without the presence of a porthole.
- the radiation 66 emitted by the preform leaves the oven by a sight hole or tube 68 located between two turns as shown in Figure 2 representing the exterior of the oven. This radiation is collected by a type pyrometer bichromatic less sensitive to measurement conditions than a monochromatic pyrometer.
- the injection of non-oxidizing gas according to the device of the invention prevents any entry of air into the oven enclosure, the existence of the sight hole 68 could leave air enter the enclosure.
- a conduit 72 into which one injects using an injector (not shown) non-oxidizing gas through its orifice 74 located at outside the coils of the inductor.
- the duct 72 is located in the thermal insulation layer 16 and ends in the sight tube 68.
- non-oxidizing gas is injected in the duct 72, part passes through the sight tube 68 towards the oven enclosure and thus maintains a pressure in the sight tube. Most of it actually goes out outside the oven through the sight tube hole thus preventing any entry of air into the sight tube and thus preventing any combustion of the graphite which could produce with oxygen from the air.
- the non-oxidizing gas which is injected either in the injection chambers located at ends of the oven, either in the duct leading to the pyrometric sight tube can be an inert gas such as argon or helium, or a reducing gas such as nitrogen.
- the embodiment of the invention which just described uses an induction furnace to the operation of shrinking a primary preform, it goes from the non-oxidizing gas injection device to the interior of an oven according to the invention can be used in any other type of oven whose enclosure contains walls of graphite or any other susceptible material to be oxidized and for application to any other object that a preform insofar as this object is in relative movement with respect to the oven.
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- Dispositif d'injection de gaz non oxydant à l'intérieur d'un four du type comprenant un élément chauffant en graphite (12) pour chauffer une enceinte cylindrique (14) comportant un orifice d'entrée (24) et un orifice de sortie (26), le four étant utilisé pour chauffer un objet longiforme dont une partie se trouve dans ladite enceinte entre l'orifice d'entrée et l'orifice de sortie, ledit objet et ledit four étant en déplacement relatif l'un par rapport à l'autre selon la direction axiale du four ;
ledit dispositif d'injection étant caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend deux anneaux de conduits de passage de gaz non oxydant (58, 60 et 62, 64), les conduits de chacun des anneaux étant inclinés d'un même angle par rapport à la direction axiale du four et ledit angle étant différent pour les deux anneaux de conduits, de manière à injecter le gaz non oxydant selon deux rideaux de gaz en forme de cône, le gaz étant dirigé vers le sommet du cône et dans la direction s'éloignant de ladite enceinte, de manière à empêcher toute entrée d'air dans ladite enceinte pouvant provoquer la combustion du graphite dudit élément chauffant. - Dispositif selon la revendication 1, comportant, à chacun des orifices d'entrée (24) et de sortie (26) de ladite enceinte (14), une chambre de pression (48 ou 50) dans laquelle est envoyé le gaz non oxydant au moyen d'un tube d'arrivée de gaz (44 ou 46), et une chambre d'injection (40 ou 42) séparée de ladite chambre de pression par une paroi comportant lesdits anneaux de conduits de passage de gaz (58, 60 et 62, 64).
- Dispositif selon la revendication 1 ou 2, comprenant en outre un deuxième injecteur annulaire (28, 30) à chaque orifice du four recevant du gaz non oxydant au moyen d'un tube d'arrivée de gaz (32, 34) et entourant une bague (36, 38) pour injecter le gaz non oxydant dans la direction axiale du four et vers le centre de l'enceinte de manière à créer une surpression à l'intérieur de l'enceinte empêchant toute entrée d'air.
- Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, comportant en outre un dispositif de mesure de température comprenant un tube de visée (68) accessible de l'extérieur et traversant l'enveloppe d'isolation thermique du four (16) et ledit suscepteur en graphite (12), un pyromètre (70) situé à l'extérieur du four à l'entrée dudit tube de visée pour recueillir le rayonnement (66) émis par ladite préforme approximativement à l'endroit (23) subissant l'opération de rétreint et ainsi mesurer sa température, et un injecteur de gaz pour injecter du gaz non oxydant dans un conduit (72) débouchant dans ledit tube de visée de sorte que le gaz non oxydant injecté ressorte à l'extérieur en empruntant ledit tube de visée et empêche toute entrée d'air dans ledit tube de visée.
- Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, dans lequel ledit four est un four à induction formé d'un inducteur à spires (10) et d'un suscepteur en graphite (12) constituant ledit élément chauffant.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 5, dans lequel ledit objet longiforme chauffé dans l'enceinte du four est une préforme primaire subissant une opération de rétreint.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 6, dans lequel ledit tube de visée (68) a son extrémité intérieure à l'enceinte située approximativement au centre de l'enceinte pour recueillir le rayonnement (66) émis par l'endroit (23) de la préforme primaire subissant l'opération de rétreint.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel ledit gaz non oxydant est de l'argon.
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FR9603224A FR2746176B1 (fr) | 1996-03-14 | 1996-03-14 | Dispositif d'injection de gaz non oxydant a l'interieur d'un four |
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